Casa Libre Presents The Fair Weather Reading Series

August 25, 2018 @ 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

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​Saturday, August 25th7:00pm (doors and music at 6:30pm)At the Royal Room (450 N 6th Ave)$5 suggested donation (no one turned away for lack of funds)

Raquel Salas Rivera is the 2018-19 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia. Their work has appeared in journals such as the Revista del Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, Apogee, and McSweeney’s. They are the author of Caneca de anhelos turbios (Editora Educación Emergente), oropel/tinsel (Lark Books), tierra intermitente (Ediciones Alayubia), and lo terciario/the tertiary (Timeless, Infinite Light). Currently, they are Co-editor of Puerto Rico en mi corazón, a collection of bilingual broadsides of contemporary Puerto Rican poets.